Good ol’ Model 21

[Bobby Cash]

I bought a good ol’ Model 21 Tournament Skeet.
Impossible drops of 1 3/4” x 1 3/4”.
Didn’t seem quite right but then sometimes neither am I.

https://i.imgur.com/o0aaMQS.jpg

A whole bunch of dowels in the head and neck from an ancient bending.

https://i.imgur.com/3OhdTxd.jpg

It couldn’t be saved. After 6 months it’s my turn on the stockmans bench.
I received these images this evening.

https://i.imgur.com/ce0h0Cj.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/X2egtXT.jpg

[Kevin McCormack]

Bobby, I shot Olympic (bunker) trap hard for 10 years with an unmolested Browning Superposed Pigeon Grade Lightning Trap 30" gun that came from the factory with 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 DAC/DAH. Stock was a standard (non-Monte Carlo): straight as an arrow and shot like a house afire!

[Bobby Cash]

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https://i.imgur.com/9u1r9oM.png

https://i.imgur.com/rxIMP9Z.png

[David Noble]

Wow! Very close match in grain to the original stock! What are the measurements going to be now?

[Clark McCombe]

I bought a good ol’ Model 21 Tournament Skeet.
Impossible drops of 1 3/4” x 1 3/4”.
Didn’t seem quite right but then sometimes neither am I.

https://i.imgur.com/o0aaMQS.jpg

A whole bunch of dowels in the head and neck from an ancient bending.

https://i.imgur.com/3OhdTxd.jpg

It couldn’t be saved. After 6 months it’s my turn on the stockmans bench.
I received these images this evening.

https://i.imgur.com/ce0h0Cj.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/X2egtXT.jpg

If I understand my wife correctly. This is the type of gun that would be suited to a female shooter. A woman's anatomy has less muscle around the collar bone, a slightly longer neck and a higher cheek bone.
With standard drops on a gun, it sits lower on the woman's shoulder and more on the collar bone and more likely to cause a bruise with the recoil.
Now, of course, I'll have to find a model 21 with similar measurements, to test this theory :)

[Bobby Cash]

Wow! Very close match in grain to the original stock! What are the measurements going to be now?
1 1/2 x 2 3/8 x 14 3/8
Plus down pitch

[Bobby Cash]

https://i.imgur.com/BH1AwPb.png

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Applying Factory finish
https://i.imgur.com/tjWElV6.png

[Bobby Cash]

Finish finished

https://i.imgur.com/KPylmsN.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/TnEPzLg.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/DAXCZu2.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/3sU73gg.jpg

[Stephen Hodges]

Bobby, do you do your own stock building work? Looks very nice

[Arthur Shaffer]

Bobby, I shot Olympic (bunker) trap hard for 10 years with an unmolested Browning Superposed Pigeon Grade Lightning Trap 30" gun that came from the factory with 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 DAC/DAH. Stock was a standard (non-Monte Carlo): straight as an arrow and shot like a house afire!

I remeber quite a few comp guns over the years with similar dimensions. They always shot well for their intended use.

[Bobby Cash]

1935 12 gauge Tournament Skeet
1 1/2 x 2 3/8 x 14 3/8
4 degrees pitch.

https://i.imgur.com/krcXvCx.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/vSoHMq5.jpg

…will you look at the lint.

[john pulis]

Very nice.